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...Version 1.00 July 2000 file:///C|/Terrys/index.htm [1/2/2001 1:47:24 PM] logo, the Sound Blaster PCI logo, EMU10K1, E-mu Environmental Modeling, Environmental Audio, Creative Multi Speaker Surround, and DynaRAM are registered trademarks of Microsoft ...Sound Card User's Guide Safety Instructions Introduction Setup Using the Sound Card Software Troubleshooting Specifications Internal Connectors Regulatory Information in trademarks and trade names other countries. Contents: Sound Blaster Live! Value Sound Card User's Guide Sound Blaster Live! Microsoft, Windows, and Windows...
...Version 1.00 July 2000 file:///C|/Terrys/index.htm [1/2/2001 1:47:24 PM] logo, the Sound Blaster PCI logo, EMU10K1, E-mu Environmental Modeling, Environmental Audio, Creative Multi Speaker Surround, and DynaRAM are registered trademarks of Microsoft ...Sound Card User's Guide Safety Instructions Introduction Setup Using the Sound Card Software Troubleshooting Specifications Internal Connectors Regulatory Information in trademarks and trade names other countries. Contents: Sound Blaster Live! Value Sound Card User's Guide Sound Blaster Live! Microsoft, Windows, and Windows...
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Using the Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! Value Running MS-DOS games in Microsoft Windows Selecting the Best Audio Options in a Game Understanding the Installation Program in Windows 98 Second Edition Understanding the System Resource Settings Understanding the Environment Variables Determining Resources MS-DOS Mode Utilities Changing Audio Card Settings Creative Diagnostics Back to Contents Page Using the Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! Value Sound Card User...
Using the Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! Value Running MS-DOS games in Microsoft Windows Selecting the Best Audio Options in a Game Understanding the Installation Program in Windows 98 Second Edition Understanding the System Resource Settings Understanding the Environment Variables Determining Resources MS-DOS Mode Utilities Changing Audio Card Settings Creative Diagnostics Back to Contents Page Using the Sound Card: Sound Blaster Live! Value Sound Card User...
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...=path where path is as follows. For MS-DOS, your audio card includes the following: q CTSYN Environment Variable q BLASTER Environment Variable CTSYN Environment Variable The CTSYN environment variable points to the location of the CTSYN.INI file. Understanding the Environment Variables: Sound Blaster Live! IRQ line used by the audio interface. Hx Second DMA channel...
...=path where path is as follows. For MS-DOS, your audio card includes the following: q CTSYN Environment Variable q BLASTER Environment Variable CTSYN Environment Variable The CTSYN environment variable points to the location of the CTSYN.INI file. Understanding the Environment Variables: Sound Blaster Live! IRQ line used by the audio interface. Hx Second DMA channel...
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...if they are independent of the MPU-401 instrument set used on the SB Live! The settings for advanced users who want to change the volume levels of the Creative Mixer settings in a single line. Value Sound Card User's Guide Overview • SBECFG.EXE • SBEMIXER.EXE •... Sound Card User's Guide Back to be loaded. MS-DOS Mode Utilities: Sound Blaster Live! DOS driver SBEINIT.COM to Contents Page MS-DOS Mode Utilities: Sound Blaster Live! SBEMIXER.EXE Use SBEMIXER.EXE to set SBEMIXER values in the command line: At the DOS prompt, type the SBEMIXER command in Windows 98...
...if they are independent of the MPU-401 instrument set used on the SB Live! The settings for advanced users who want to change the volume levels of the Creative Mixer settings in a single line. Value Sound Card User's Guide Overview • SBECFG.EXE • SBEMIXER.EXE •... Sound Card User's Guide Back to be loaded. MS-DOS Mode Utilities: Sound Blaster Live! DOS driver SBEINIT.COM to Contents Page MS-DOS Mode Utilities: Sound Blaster Live! SBEMIXER.EXE Use SBEMIXER.EXE to set SBEMIXER values in the command line: At the DOS prompt, type the SBEMIXER command in Windows 98...
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... DMA channel used by the audio interface. Value Sound Card User's Guide /S:x Synth volume. x can boot to manually reconfigure DOS SB Emulation, for the next session. file:///C|/Terrys/msdos.htm (2 of the parameters. Under rare circumstances you may need to Windows. MS-DOS Mode Utilities: Sound Blaster Live! x can be a value from the range 0 to change...
... DMA channel used by the audio interface. Value Sound Card User's Guide /S:x Synth volume. x can boot to manually reconfigure DOS SB Emulation, for the next session. file:///C|/Terrys/msdos.htm (2 of the parameters. Under rare circumstances you may need to Windows. MS-DOS Mode Utilities: Sound Blaster Live! x can be a value from the range 0 to change...
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SBEGO.EXE Use this to confirm whether SB16 Emulation is On. -wx Set x to 1 to use the Windows-assigned resource configuration. Value Sound Card User's Guide -Hx Second DMA channel used by the audio interface. -Pxxx MPU-401 UART interface's base I /O address...use the Windows-assigned resource configuration". For x, 1 is Off, 0 is properly installed and working. Set x to 0 to 3, and use (your) user-assigned resource configuration NOTE: See "Understanding the System Resource Settings" for a list of 3) [1/2/2001 2:10:42 PM] MS-DOS Mode Utilities: Sound Blaster Live! Back to...
SBEGO.EXE Use this to confirm whether SB16 Emulation is On. -wx Set x to 1 to use the Windows-assigned resource configuration. Value Sound Card User's Guide -Hx Second DMA channel used by the audio interface. -Pxxx MPU-401 UART interface's base I /O address...use the Windows-assigned resource configuration". For x, 1 is Off, 0 is properly installed and working. Set x to 0 to 3, and use (your) user-assigned resource configuration NOTE: See "Understanding the System Resource Settings" for a list of 3) [1/2/2001 2:10:42 PM] MS-DOS Mode Utilities: Sound Blaster Live! Back to...
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... without sacrificing on the Sound Blaster Live! Supports Microsoft DirectSound®, DirectSound3D, and derivative technologies. q Sound Blaster Live! Web site - System Requirements For Creative software, your card requires at least: q Pentium® class 133 MHz or equivalent processor q Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennim Edition, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 q 32 MB RAM for Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennim Edition, Windows NT 4.0, 64 MB...
... without sacrificing on the Sound Blaster Live! Supports Microsoft DirectSound®, DirectSound3D, and derivative technologies. q Sound Blaster Live! Web site - System Requirements For Creative software, your card requires at least: q Pentium® class 133 MHz or equivalent processor q Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennim Edition, Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000 q 32 MB RAM for Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennim Edition, Windows NT 4.0, 64 MB...
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Value Sound Card User's Guide Installing the Software in Windows 98 Second Edition/Windows Millennium Edition Installing the Software in Windows NT 4.0 Installing the Software in Windows 2000 Back to Contents Page Installing Software: Sound Blaster Live! Installing Software: Sound Blaster Live! Value Sound Card User's Guide Back to Contents Page file:///C|/Terrys/instalsw.htm [1/2/2001 2:12:05 PM]
Value Sound Card User's Guide Installing the Software in Windows 98 Second Edition/Windows Millennium Edition Installing the Software in Windows NT 4.0 Installing the Software in Windows 2000 Back to Contents Page Installing Software: Sound Blaster Live! Installing Software: Sound Blaster Live! Value Sound Card User's Guide Back to Contents Page file:///C|/Terrys/instalsw.htm [1/2/2001 2:12:05 PM]
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... Back to display the icon for each utility. AudioHQ uses the familiar Windows group to Contents Page Creative AudioHQ: Sound Blaster Live! AudioHQ control panel. SoundFont Control Creative SoundFont Control allows you to Sound Blaster Live! Figure 1. Value Sound Card User's Guide Overview • SoundFont Control • Creative Keyboard • Creative Mixer • Speaker Control • Environmental Audio Control Overview AudioHQ can be...
... Back to display the icon for each utility. AudioHQ uses the familiar Windows group to Contents Page Creative AudioHQ: Sound Blaster Live! AudioHQ control panel. SoundFont Control Creative SoundFont Control allows you to Sound Blaster Live! Figure 1. Value Sound Card User's Guide Overview • SoundFont Control • Creative Keyboard • Creative Mixer • Speaker Control • Environmental Audio Control Overview AudioHQ can be...
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... 2:12:27 PM] You can use the external MIDI input device to their default values. If you want to use . 2. To silence all MIDI sustain sounds: q In Creative Keyboard, click the All Notes Off button. Value Sound Card User's Guide You can select and mix different...sound. Test an Instrument To test an instrument: 1. q To slide across the keyboard, drag the mouse. Click the keys on your instrument, click the Reset Controllers button to set the MIDI controllers to test your MIDI banks and instruments. Click the keys on the keyboard are removed. Creative AudioHQ: Sound Blaster Live...
... 2:12:27 PM] You can use the external MIDI input device to their default values. If you want to use . 2. To silence all MIDI sustain sounds: q In Creative Keyboard, click the All Notes Off button. Value Sound Card User's Guide You can select and mix different...sound. Test an Instrument To test an instrument: 1. q To slide across the keyboard, drag the mouse. Click the keys on your instrument, click the Reset Controllers button to set the MIDI controllers to test your MIDI banks and instruments. Click the keys on the keyboard are removed. Creative AudioHQ: Sound Blaster Live...
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... With Joystick • Resolving I/O Conflicts • Problems in Windows NT 4.0 Most Common Problems Table 1. No sound from the headphones. No audio output when playing CD-Audio. Problems With Sound Unwanted change of Super-Environment presets. There is insufficient memory to Contents Page Troubleshooting: Sound Blaster Live! Value Sound Card User's Guide Most Common Problems • Uninstalling and Reinstalling...
... With Joystick • Resolving I/O Conflicts • Problems in Windows NT 4.0 Most Common Problems Table 1. No sound from the headphones. No audio output when playing CD-Audio. Problems With Sound Unwanted change of Super-Environment presets. There is insufficient memory to Contents Page Troubleshooting: Sound Blaster Live! Value Sound Card User's Guide Most Common Problems • Uninstalling and Reinstalling...
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... then click Control Panel. 2. In the Creative Uninstaller dialog box, select the Windows Drivers check box, and then click the Next button. 5. If a Windows NT 4.0 Service Control Manager error message appears...Sound Card User's Guide The joystick is the language of the software that you want to install. 3. Value entry, and then click the Add/Remove button. 4. To do so: 1. Troubleshooting: Sound Blaster Live! Uninstalling the Audio Drivers 1. On the Install/Uninstall tabbed page, select the Sound Blaster Live! Restart your computer when prompted. Microsoft Windows...
... then click Control Panel. 2. In the Creative Uninstaller dialog box, select the Windows Drivers check box, and then click the Next button. 5. If a Windows NT 4.0 Service Control Manager error message appears...Sound Card User's Guide The joystick is the language of the software that you want to install. 3. Value entry, and then click the Add/Remove button. 4. To do so: 1. Troubleshooting: Sound Blaster Live! Uninstalling the Audio Drivers 1. On the Install/Uninstall tabbed page, select the Sound Blaster Live! Restart your computer when prompted. Microsoft Windows...
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... tab and select your computer. To switch to display Launcher). Open Environmental Audio Control applet. Troubleshooting: Sound Blaster Live! In the My Computer window, right-click the CD-ROM drive icon. 3. In the Properties dialog box, click the Settings tab...Windows 98 Second Edition/Windows Millennium Edition, the installation does not start the installation program through Auto Insert Notification: 1. The AutoPlay feature in the previous section, "Reinstalling the Audio Drivers From the Installation Disc". Value Sound Card User's Guide Removing Unused Sound Blaster...
... tab and select your computer. To switch to display Launcher). Open Environmental Audio Control applet. Troubleshooting: Sound Blaster Live! In the My Computer window, right-click the CD-ROM drive icon. 3. In the Properties dialog box, click the Settings tab...Windows 98 Second Edition/Windows Millennium Edition, the installation does not start the installation program through Auto Insert Notification: 1. The AutoPlay feature in the previous section, "Reinstalling the Audio Drivers From the Installation Disc". Value Sound Card User's Guide Removing Unused Sound Blaster...
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...or) Creative Mixer to the wrong jack. q The external amplifier ...in a software mixer application other than Surround Mixer (for example, the Windows Volume Control application) is a hardware conflict. q The output selection in...card and a peripheral device. Value Sound Card User's Guide No audio output when playing digital files such as.WAV, MIDI files or AVI clips. q The powered speakers or external... Environmental Audio applet are connected to the right, the sound from that require a CD-ROM. Troubleshooting: Sound Blaster Live! q There is at or near 0%. Panning a ...
...or) Creative Mixer to the wrong jack. q The external amplifier ...in a software mixer application other than Surround Mixer (for example, the Windows Volume Control application) is a hardware conflict. q The output selection in...card and a peripheral device. Value Sound Card User's Guide No audio output when playing digital files such as.WAV, MIDI files or AVI clips. q The powered speakers or external... Environmental Audio applet are connected to the right, the sound from that require a CD-ROM. Troubleshooting: Sound Blaster Live! q There is at or near 0%. Panning a ...
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...the Configure Banks tabbed page of a smaller SoundFont bank is insufficient memory to the right. For example, the CD Audio balance in Windows Volume Control is insufficient memory allocated to the right. If there is loaded or played. In the Preset deck, click the Surround... Select Bank box. Value Sound Card User's Guide which you can allocate depends on the left corner. Problem with Surround Mixer Unwanted change of Super-Environment presets. The amount of SoundFont cache you have panned the CD Audio to SoundFonts. Troubleshooting: Sound Blaster Live! To solve the problem:...
...the Configure Banks tabbed page of a smaller SoundFont bank is insufficient memory to the right. For example, the CD Audio balance in Windows Volume Control is insufficient memory allocated to the right. If there is loaded or played. In the Preset deck, click the Surround... Select Bank box. Value Sound Card User's Guide which you can allocate depends on the left corner. Problem with Surround Mixer Unwanted change of Super-Environment presets. The amount of SoundFont cache you have panned the CD Audio to SoundFonts. Troubleshooting: Sound Blaster Live! To solve the problem:...
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... problem: q Increase your system's 8 bit I /O conflicts, change the resource settings of the BIOS setting, usually under the Chipset Feature Settings section. If you may occur if your audio card and another peripheral device may adjust the...window, double-click the System icon. 3. If the problem persists, try a different joystick. Under the Sound, Video And Game Controllers entry, select the conflicting audio card driver-indicated by an exclamation mark (!)-and click the Properties button. 5. In the Properties dialog box, click the Resources tab. Troubleshooting: Sound Blaster Live...
... problem: q Increase your system's 8 bit I /O conflicts, change the resource settings of the BIOS setting, usually under the Chipset Feature Settings section. If you may occur if your audio card and another peripheral device may adjust the...window, double-click the System icon. 3. If the problem persists, try a different joystick. Under the Sound, Video And Game Controllers entry, select the conflicting audio card driver-indicated by an exclamation mark (!)-and click the Properties button. 5. In the Properties dialog box, click the Resources tab. Troubleshooting: Sound Blaster Live...
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... Troubleshooting section in Windows NT 4.0 A Service Control Manager error message appears with one or more other than r Audio for Creative SB Live! Value card. r Audio Devices r MIDI Devices And Instruments r the items other error messages at system restart. r MIDI for Creative S/W Synth 5. Value Sound Card User's Guide 6. This occurs after you have successfully installed the Sound Blaster Live! Click the...
... Troubleshooting section in Windows NT 4.0 A Service Control Manager error message appears with one or more other than r Audio for Creative SB Live! Value card. r Audio Devices r MIDI Devices And Instruments r the items other error messages at system restart. r MIDI for Creative S/W Synth 5. Value Sound Card User's Guide 6. This occurs after you have successfully installed the Sound Blaster Live! Click the...
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... Dxr2 or MPEG2 decoder card is , unmute) the Aux Input in (Surround Mixer) or the Creative Mixer's Play Control view. You may need to Contents Page Connecting Creative PC-DVD: Sound Blaster Live! file:///C|/Terrys/pcdvd.htm (1 of the screen to an external Dolby Digital (AC- 3) decoder such as Desktop Theater 5.1, either: q Disconnect the Sound Blaster Live! To open (Surround...
... Dxr2 or MPEG2 decoder card is , unmute) the Aux Input in (Surround Mixer) or the Creative Mixer's Play Control view. You may need to Contents Page Connecting Creative PC-DVD: Sound Blaster Live! file:///C|/Terrys/pcdvd.htm (1 of the screen to an external Dolby Digital (AC- 3) decoder such as Desktop Theater 5.1, either: q Disconnect the Sound Blaster Live! To open (Surround...
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... the System icon. 3. SB16 Emulation. 5. Value card. Value Sound Card User's Guide To find the current SB Live! You can use SB interface port 220. Switch to Contents Page Determining Resources: Sound Blaster Live! SB16 Emulation configuration. Double-click Creative Miscellaneous Devices, and then double-click Creative SB Live! SB16 Emulation resources in Windows 98 Second Edition: 1. Typically, these games would...
... the System icon. 3. SB16 Emulation. 5. Value card. Value Sound Card User's Guide To find the current SB Live! You can use SB interface port 220. Switch to Contents Page Determining Resources: Sound Blaster Live! SB16 Emulation configuration. Double-click Creative Miscellaneous Devices, and then double-click Creative SB Live! SB16 Emulation resources in Windows 98 Second Edition: 1. Typically, these games would...
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...the Gameport Joystick interface is disabled, the entry in Windows: 1. Changing Audio Card Settings: Sound Blaster Live! Click OK to restart Windows and for example, when you are not using to Contents Page Changing Audio Card Settings: Sound Blaster Live! Enabling/Disabling Gameport Joystick Interface The Gameport Joystick ...In the Control Panel window, double-click the System icon. 3. To disable it , make sure that you do not have enough IRQ lines. Double-click Sound, Video And Game Controllers, and then select Creative Gameport Joystick. 5. Value Sound Card User's Guide Back ...
...the Gameport Joystick interface is disabled, the entry in Windows: 1. Changing Audio Card Settings: Sound Blaster Live! Click OK to restart Windows and for example, when you are not using to Contents Page Changing Audio Card Settings: Sound Blaster Live! Enabling/Disabling Gameport Joystick Interface The Gameport Joystick ...In the Control Panel window, double-click the System icon. 3. To disable it , make sure that you do not have enough IRQ lines. Double-click Sound, Video And Game Controllers, and then select Creative Gameport Joystick. 5. Value Sound Card User's Guide Back ...